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NVIDIA H100 SXM rental price

Median $3.99/GPU-hr on-demand · $1.89/GPU-hr spot · across 7 providers · Updated 2026-08-11 02:50 UTC · Anatomy ↓

Price history

$0.00$1.25$2.50$3.75$5.00Aug 10Dec 3May 13Jan 1Apr 7Aug 2live pipeline →$3.99$2.69$1.89

Each point is the daily cross-provider median for this SKU and pricing type (per-provider medians first, so no marketplace’s volume dominates). Gaps are gaps — we don’t interpolate missing data.

Dashed/hollow points before 2026-08-09: archival reconstruction from dated provider pricing-page snapshots (see methodology) — fewer providers, monthly resolution.

The spread: the same NVIDIA H100 SXM ranges from $1.73 to $11.06 per hour across tracked providers right now — a 6.4× difference. This is why we exist.

Where to rent it

ProviderTypeRegion$/GPU-hrSeen
DataCrunchDataCrunchSpot—$1.632026-08-11 02:50 UTC
Vast.aiVast.aiOn-demandUS$1.732026-08-10 21:56 UTC
Voltage ParkVoltage ParkOn-demand—$1.992026-08-11 02:50 UTC
AzureAzureSpoteastus$2.272026-08-11 02:50 UTC
Vast.aiVast.aiSpotUS$2.532026-08-10 21:56 UTC
RunPodRunPodCommunity—$2.692026-08-11 02:50 UTC
DataCrunchDataCrunchOn-demand—$3.252026-08-11 02:50 UTC
RunPodRunPodOn-demand—$3.292026-08-11 02:50 UTC
HyperstackHyperstackOn-demand—$3.992026-08-11 02:50 UTC
LambdaLambdaOn-demand—$4.192026-08-11 02:50 UTC
NebiusNebiusOn-demand—$4.502026-08-11 02:50 UTC
AzureAzureOn-demandeastus$11.062026-08-11 02:50 UTC

Prices are as listed by providers at scrape time; availability at a listed price isn’t guaranteed. Links marked ↗ may be affiliate links — they never affect prices shown or ordering.

Anatomy: why it costs this

Everything that has to exist before one H100 SXM-hour can be rented — then the arithmetic on the parts that can be priced honestly.

The foundry. Nearly every datacenter GPU is fabbed here — the tightest bottleneck in the chain.TSMC4N process · packagingThe memory feeding this SKU — for HBM parts, the second great bottleneck.SK hynix · Micron · Samsu…HBM3 · 80 GBDesign and the software moat — and most of the margin in the whole chain.NVIDIAGPU design & softwareHow this silicon becomes a rentable machine.Supermicro · Dell · Foxco…HGX/DGX & OEM serversFleets are financed; capital recovery is the largest slice of the hourly price.Capital marketsdebt & equityColo and hyperscale facilities; PUE lives here.Data centersland · shell · coolingGrid electricity including cooling overhead (PUE) — priced on the cost stack below.Power gridkWh per GPU-hourEvaporative-cooling upper bound — environmentally real, economically small.Waterliters per GPU-hourThe providers listing this SKU right now — the layer this site prices hourly.Clouds & marketplacesVast.ai · Voltage Park · Data…The number this site tracks.You$3.99/GPU-hr median
Electricity$0.17/hr4.3%1.96 kWh from the grid
Water (upper bound)$0.011/hr0.3%≤ 2.3 L, priced high on purpose
Capital · facility · network · staff · margin$3.81/hr95.4%everything the operating inputs don't explain

Power basis: published full-system wall power (DGX H100: 10.2 kW ÷ 8) × PUE 1.54 × 8.71¢/kWh (1.96 kWh from the grid). Water bounded at 1.8 L/kWh and $5/m³ — deliberately high. The residual is hardware amortization, facility, staff, and margin — presented as a residual because vendors don’t publish server street prices, and we don’t print numbers we can’t stand behind.

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NVIDIA H100 SXM, NVIDIA H100 PCIe, and NVIDIA H100 NVL are tracked as separate SKUs — different interconnect, different performance, different market. Comparing them in one number would be wrong, so we don’t.

Last scrape: 2026-08-11 02:51 UTC · 654 observations today across 8 providers · Failures logged, never interpolated.

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